UPDATE: Sadly, the new store only lasted about 4 months, closed down by March 2012.

A WONDERFUL THING HAS HAPPENED: we’ve got a new bookshop in Biggleswade, opened last Thursday, 10th November 2011, at the old ‘Bookworms’ premises in the alleyway between the Market Square and Aldi — Susie’s Bookstore, and everything’s half-price or better:

Susie’s Bookstore, Biggleswade: all books half-price!

Susie’s has relocated from Letchworth, where they concluded that there were too many bookshops: far better to trade in a town where there aren’t any — or rather, weren’t.

Sue and I called in today, met the lovely Susie, and loved what we found, shelves jam-packed with all sorts and still being filled with the stock brought across from their previous, much larger premises in Letchworth: paperbacks & hardbacks, fiction & non-fiction, and a whole wall full of children’s books. And yes, I bought a book: Jasper Fforde’s latest, Shades of Grey. What do you mean, Jasper Who? Jasper Fforde, author of The Eyre Affair: head on over to the UKCBD reviews section and read Conrad Gempf’s review from back in 2004.

Biggleswade Chronicle: It’s a whole new chapter for Biggleswade outlet

This is the site I’d originally considered for Biggleswade Books. That dream wasn’t to be, but never mind: a new dream has been born, just in time for Christmas, complete with a report and photo in this week’s Biggleswade Chronicle: It’s a whole new chapter for Biggleswade outlet